Thought of the Day

I was in Davos last week and and have been writing about the meeting of the World Economic Forum in my daily column at Al Hayat. A few notes:
- Professor Klaus Schwab desrves the Nobel Peace Prize. He is really working to improve the state of all peoples of the world and has been doing this for over 30 years.
- U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff did not disappoint me. He was as negative as one would expect from a senior Bush official.
- Senator John Kerry was excellent. He knew the difference between Sunnis and Shiites and revealed a deep grasp of the most thorny issues in the Middle East. It was not just that he read from prepared statements, even Bush can do that, but he was good when it came to questions and answers.
- Looking at and hearing Kerry and remembering how he lost the election to George W. Bush left me thinking that any opponent of democracy would only need to cite the result of that election to win the argument.

Thought of the Day

I was in Davos last week and and have been writing about the meeting of the World Economic Forum in my daily column at Al Hayat. A few notes:
- Professor Klaus Schwab desrves the Nobel Peace Prize. He is really working to improve the state of all peoples of the world and has been doing this for over 30 years.
- U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff did not disappoint me. He was as negative as one would expect from a senior Bush official.
- Senator John Kerry was excellent. He knew the difference between Sunnis and Shiites and revealed a deep grasp of the most thorny issues in the Middle East. It was not just that he read from prepared statements, even Bush can do that, but he was good when it came to questions and answers.
- Looking at and hearing Kerry and remembering how he lost the election to George W. Bush left me thinking that any opponent of democracy would only need to cite the result of that election to win the arugment.

Thought of the Day

The new strategy of George W Bush in Iraq will fail. I am putting this in writing to be able to return to it in the future and say: I told you so. What will happen is that the resistance fighters and terrorists will lie low in the face of additional U.S. troops because they know that the American presence will not continue forever. So there will be an initial lull which Bush will translate as success. The end will be quite different. Mark my word and hold me to it.

Thought of the Day

Writing in FrontPageMagazine under the headline "Stop Calling them Settlers", P. David Hornik argues that the Israeli settlers in the occupied Palestinian territories live their legally and as such must not be called settlers. Okay, I won't call them settlers. I suggest that we call them thieves, burglars, terrorists, intruders, neo-nazis, supremacists, trespassers, convicts, illegal immigrants, thugs, etc. etc . Oh how I wish I had a thesaurus hold of the English language. Hornik, by the way is accessory to all the alternative names of the settlers.

Thought of the Day

Last year, 2006, was catastrophic in an almost Biblical sense, like the plague or the flood. Just ask the people of Iraq. One encounter may explain it all. On July 15, President Bush suggested to President Putin that Russia adopts a free press and religion, as in Iraq. I still don't understand why the Russian president refused to take up this generous and sensible suggestion.